Well, I finally succumbed to the Warmachine bug. I've had models lying around for a while, but never got around to doing anything with them. After getting the starter set, I decided to start working on my small Cryx collection.

Ive just finished the Denegra starter box. It has a very simple color scheme, but I think it works, and is very reproduce-able.

With out any ado.. Denegra

Slayer

Defiler

Deathripper 1

Deathripper 2

and the Group as a whole

I'm hoping to try these out soon, and have more to work on, but it's a good start.

Are the runes molded into the mini or did you draw them in freehand?Because if they are done freehand then I beg to differ about the "Was a snap to do" line....they are something that I could not do without A LOT of painting over and over and over again.Which would not make them a "snap" for me, that's for sure.

I've seen your work... You could do this easily. It was a very simple color scheme, and most of the detail work was molded on the model. There are only about 7 colors and a couple washes, and the basecoat was a walmart spraypaint called Caramel Latte... The runes were done with a pen, so if you can doodle, nuff said there. Aside from the Caramel Latte base, there was shining gold, mithral silver, boltgun metal, scorpion green, and bleached bone. Elf flesh on denegra. The bone areas were base bleached bone highlighted with a 50/50 mix of BB and white (the only blended colors I use regularly, so I have a pot mixed already) and the washes were a green wash for the power plants, and an armor wash I made from brown and black ink. I bare-bones painted everything on the model first, before washing anything. Then I used the armor wash on EVERYTHING. It does a fantastic job of blending the flesh/bone colors, adds shading and aged all the metal. Then I dropped the green wash on the power plants. It looked very plain when I was done, so I decided to put the runes on. Random doodles and a very tiny pen are the key to good runes. Also having seen some dwarf and eldar and space wolf runes helps with the process. I've been following your blog on learning to paint. You have been aquirring LOTS of technical knowledge on painting. This is bare-bones, paint what the model gives you painting. Very simple to achieve and anyone could do it.

Did you ink at all or just use a shade? Looking at the faces of the Deathrippers, it looks like you inked by hand, but I got the impression from your post that you did it more like the shading I have been doing.

I washed it. I took a brown wash and mixed it with a black wash and added a bit of water. Its a little lighter than a wash, but heavier than a glaze. I put about 2 coats of the armor wash on and it does great stuff with the bone.

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